Senior Engineering Manager

Siteimprove
London
1 year ago
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As aSenior Engineering Manager, you'll lead a high-performing, distributed engineering team focused on enhancing our SaaS platform. Your leadership will drive the development of scalable APIs, data structures, and an immersive UI experience, encompassing both front-end and back-end technologies with cloud-native design patterns.
You will play a pivotal role in ensuring the performance, stability, and growth of a key part of our platform while fostering engineering excellence. Core challenges you'll address include:
How do we continuously innovate to deliver exceptional value to customers?
How do we measure and improve the impact of our products?
How do we leverage the right mix of technology, data, and analytics to power our product?
If you're passionate about using cloud technology, data, and analytics to solve complex problems and make a significant impact, this role is for you.

What you will be doing

  • Technical Strategy and Roadmap:Shape the vision and strategy for our platform, aligning with business objectives and customer needs.
  • End-to-End Delivery:Own the development lifecycle from concept to launch, ensuring business goals are met. Engage in quarterly business reviews to maintain alignment with leadership.
  • Cross-Functional Collaboration:Work with product, design, data science, and marketing teams to develop innovative features. Lead, mentor, and grow your engineering team, fostering a collaborative culture.
  • Customer-Centric Focus:Stay in close contact with stakeholders, continuously gathering feedback to refine and improve the platform.
  • Data-Driven Decision Making:Leverage data and customer insights to prioritize features and enhancements. Define and track performance metrics to measure success.
  • Innovation:Explore new technologies and methodologies to keep the platform at the forefront of industry trends.
  • Communication:Clearly communicate technical strategy, progress, and vision to both internal and external stakeholders, including senior leadership.
  • Perform other related duties as assigned.

What we will require of you

  • Bachelor's degree in engineering, computer science, or a related field.
  • 8+ years of software engineering with 5+ years managing teams.
  • Proven track record of leading cross-functional teams and delivering innovation with measurable outcomes.
  • Strong analytical skills, using data to guide decisions.
  • Excellent communication and leadership abilities.

What we will love about you

  • Master's degree in computer science, engineering, data science, or related fields.
  • Experience with IAC tools like Terraform, Cloudformation, or AWS CDK.
  • Experience managing global teams.
  • Familiarity with machine learning applications.
Base pay will depend on the position, individual qualifications, market, and other operational business needs.



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